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Panel Discussion | April 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Zoom

Speaker:  Tanja Maljartschuk, Author

Event Symposium: Recovering Memory and Culture After the Holocaust:
UC Davis Holocaust Scholars on "Recovered Voices"

Tuesday, April 11 | 4:00-5:30pm

Welcome to spring quarter 2023! The undergrad advising team is here for any advising needs, make an appointment, https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/, we’re happy to help and connect you to any campus resources!  We continue to have drop-in advising Tuesdays from 1:30-3pm, https://langlit.stage.advisingfrontdesk.lsit.ucdavis.edu/signin.

The German & Russian Colloquium Series is proud to present:

“Fixing Kant’s Monstrosity: Schopenhauer on the Intuitive Understanding”

Alejandro Sandoval, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UC Davis

March 6, 3:00 pm, 912 Sproul

Abstract:

The Excellence in Teaching of Study Abroad Award recognizes UC Davis instructors of the Academic Senate and Academic Federation who go above and beyond in designing and teaching UC Davis Study Abroad programs. The recipients of this year’s award are Jaimey Fisher and David Masiel. 

Continuing Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator, Kirsten Harjes, is curating a film series at the Crocker art museum in Sacramento this winter and spring, to accompany the exhibition A Graphic Art: German Expressionist Prints 

Feb. 16: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Mar. 16:  The Blue Angel 

April 20:  Girls in Uniform

https://my.crockerart.org/germanexpressionism/853

Lecture | December 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Zoom

Speaker:  Barbara Yelin, Graphic Novelist

Moderator:  Brett E. Sterling, Associate Professor of German in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Arkansas

Register for this zoom event here: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsd-yprTMiHtdOCmjyfVAM3q7KRunc4PRr

Lecture | October 17 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Zoom

Speaker:  Deniz Utlu, Author

Moderators:  Sultan Doughan, Dr Thomas Zand visiting assistant professor of Holocaust pedagogy and antisemitism studies at Clark University; Deniz Göktürk, Professor in the Department of German at UC Berkeley

Tom Smits is an Associate Professor in English and German Foreign Language Teaching and German Variational Linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). In 2021, he was appointed as Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University (South Africa) after a successful nomination by the Faculty of Education in recognition of his standing in the field of multilingualism and multiculturalism in education.

Fall 2022 is here!  Welcome back and to our incoming class of students.  Your Undergrad Advising team is excited to see you, whether in person or via remote appointments.  Please make an appointment from this link: https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39; or use our drop in advising Tuesday afternoon or Friday morning from this link: https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39

Virtual Drop-in Advising

Welcome back and to Fall quarter.  The Advising team is excited for another great year.  We are now able to offer virtual drop-in advising. Please visit this link, https://langlit.advisingfrontdesk.lsit.ucdavis.edu/signin, on Tuesday’s from 1:30-3pm or Friday 9-11am. We are looking forward to assisting you with your advising needs.

Read the full article here: https://www.ucdavis.edu/majors/blog/3-reasons-why-you-should-major-or-minor-language

Undergraduate Advising as a full team. Please welcome Anna Pendleton and Veronica Munoz! Make an appointment from the below link for any advising needs:

https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39

Greg Redmond, German Graduate Program Alum, and his wife, Carrie Cornwell, have issued a Give Day challenge:

"Taking a two-year break from practicing primary care medicine at UCDHs for 27 years, to complete a master's degree in German at UCD, saved my quality of life.